Current Sociology
Sociologist of the Month
‘Sociologist of the Month’ campaigns are monthly campaigns on social media initiated in 2015 to highlight the work of different sociologists from around the world, both established and more junior, who have published with Current Sociology. During the period of their feature, their article is available as free access. This is one way among others to draw attention to the work of diverse sociologists and promote sociology more generally.
June 2025
Zhang Jingting and Jia Chao, China
Tragedy does not die: Creativity, emotions, and metaphor of revolution in the context of Chinese Revolutionary Drama, Current Sociology, first published August 23, 2023
May 2025
Suvi Salmenniemi and Hanna Ylöstalo, Finland
Everyday utopias and social reproduction, Current Sociology, first published August 10, 2023
April 2025
Sónia Bernardo Correia & Ana Caetano, Portugal
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives, Current Sociology, first published September 29, 2023
March 2025
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Israel
Settler Colonialism and the Archives of Apprehension, Current Sociology, first published June 22, 2022
February 2025
Sarah Demart, Belgium
Afro-Belgian activist resistances to research procedures: Reflections on epistemic extractivism and decolonial interventions in sociological research, Current Sociology, first published July 21, 2022
January 2025
Richard Parsons, Australia and Lara K. Mottee, Australia
Exploring equity in social impact assessment, Current Sociology, first published October 3, 2023
December 2024
Julien Larregue, Canada
Sentencing social psychology: Scientific deviance and the diffusion of statistical rules, Current Sociology, first published August 13, 2022
November 2024
Sylvia Esther Gyan, Ghana
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana, Current Sociology, first published May 3, 2022
October 2024
Ana Velitchkova, USA
Citizenship as a caste marker: How persons experience cross-national inequality, Current Sociology, first published July 15, 2021
September 2024
Aysegül Akdemir, Turkey
‘Put me on to a male agent’: Emotional labor and performing gender in call centers, Current Sociology, first published October 15, 2022
August 2024
Alexander Dunlap, Norway
Weaponizing people in environmental conflicts: Capturing ‘hearts’, ‘minds’, and manufacturing ‘volunteers’ for extractive development, Current Sociology, first published April 21, 2022
July 2024
Kristin Wiksell, Sweden
Friends against capitalism: Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives, Current Sociology, first published June 4, 2022
June 2024
Lisa Baranik, Brandon Gorman and Natalie Wright, USA
Wasta and its relationship to employment status and income in the Arab Middle East, Current Sociology, first published July 15, 2021
May 2024
Lutfun Nahar Lata, Australia
The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka, Current Sociology, first published February 23, 2022
April 2024
Sait Bayrakdar, UK and Andrew King, UK
LGBT discrimination, harassment and violence in Germany, Portugal and the UK: A quantitative comparative approach, Current Sociology, first published September 17, 2021
March 2024
Walid Habbas, Israel and Yael Berda Israel/USA
Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control, Current Sociology, first published June 22, 2021
February 2024
Artur Bogner, Germany and Gabriele Rosenthal, Germany
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research, Current Sociology, first published November 15, 2022
January 2024
Leon Freude, Spain and Matthew Waites, UK
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences, Current Sociology, first published February 23, 2022
December 2023
Hsin-Chieh Chang, China
Receptivity to different types of migrants in Taiwan: Civic behaviour and support for same-sex marriage as novel correlates, Current Sociology, first published September 17, 2021
November 2023
Yen Nee Wong, United Kingdom
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence, Current Sociology, first published June 25, 2023
October 2023
Jung Cheol Shin, Republic of Korea
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea, Current Sociology, first published October 19, 2021
September 2023
Uzair Ahmed, Norway
Reflections on racialisation’s impact on research: Insights from a study of Muslim radicalisation in Norway, Current Sociology, first published April 1, 2023
August 2023
Jieyu Liu, UK
Childhood in urban China: A three-generation portrait, Current Sociology, first published April 20, 202
July 2023
Ravindra N Mohabeer, Canada
A method to analyze invisibility: Navigating the dissonance between woke and safe, Current Sociology, first published May 28, 2021
June 2023
Zeynep Atalay, USA
The mutual constitution of illiberal civil society and neoauthoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey, Current Sociology, first published September 17, 2021
May 2023
Olivia Maury, Finland
Punctuated temporalities: Temporal borders in student-migrants’ everyday lives, Current Sociology, first published July 30, 2020
April 2023
Xiaorong Gu, United Kingdom
‘Save the children!’: Governing left-behind children through family in China’s Great Migration, Current Sociology, first published April 20, 2021
March 2023
Mangala Subramaniam, USA
Empathy in Research Process: Study of Women in Sex Work in India, Current Sociology, first published June 3, 2022
February 2023
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Israel
Settler Colonialism and the Archives of Apprehension, Current Sociology, first published June 22, 2022
January 2023
Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Australia
Guest co-editor of the Special Subsection "Re-imagining what counts as Femicide" published in Volume 71 Issue 1, January 2023 of Current Sociology
Floretta A Boonzaier, South Africa
Spectacularizing narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis, Current Sociology, first published May 28, 2022
December 2022
Michaela Benson, United Kingdom
Hong Kongers and the coloniality of British citizenship from decolonisation to Brexit and the foundation of ‘Global Britain’, Current Sociology, first published October 15, 2021
November 2022
Mickey Vallee, Canada
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic, Current Sociology, first published April 21, 2022
October 2022
Adrienne Lee Atterberry, USA, Derrace G. McCallum, Japan, and Yifei Lu, China
Interrogating parenting and intergenerational relationships within national and transnational contexts, Current Sociology, first published November 18, 2021
September 2022
Miro Griffiths, UK
Disabled Youth Participation within Activism and Social Movement Bases: An Empirical Investigation of the UK Disabled People’s Movement, Current Sociology, first published June 4, 2022
August 2022
Guðmundur Ævar Oddsson, Iceland
Class in Iceland, Current Sociology, first published May 19, 2021
July 2022
Nadim Mirshak, UK
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: A Gramscian re-examination, Current Sociology, first published September 17, 2021
June 2022
Lim Sang Hun, South Korea
Look Up Rather Than Down: Karl Polanyi’s Fascism and Radical Right-Wing ‘Populism’, Current Sociology, first published May 20, 2021
May 2022
José Maurício Domingues, Brazil
From global risk to global threat: State capabilities and modernity in times of coronavirus, Current Sociology, 70:1, 6–23
April 2022
Janet Arnado, Philippines
Structured inequalities and authors’ positionalities in academic publishing: The case of Philippine international migration scholarship, Current Sociology, first published September 13, 2021
December 2021
Veronica L. Gregorio, Singapore
Isolation and Immunity within the Family: Commuter Marriages in Southeast Asia, Current Sociology, first published November 16, 2020
November 2021
Anat Herbst-Debby, Israel
Palestinian mothers in Israel: Can a welfare-to-work program enhance their social capital?, Current Sociology, first published June 7, 2020
October 2021
Ali Meghji, UK
Towards a theoretical synergy: Critical race theory and decolonial thought in Trumpamerica and Brexit Britain, Current Sociology, first published November 16, 2020
September 2021
Yoshie Yanagihara, Japan
The practice of surrogacy as a phenomenon of ‘bare life’: An analysis of the Japanese case applying Agamben’s theory, Current Sociology, 69( 2): 231–248
August 2021
Defne Över, USA
From self-censorship to contention: Shame triggered participation in the 2013 Gezi Protests, Current Sociology, first published May 20, 2021
July 2021
Guya Accornero, Portugal
Contentious buildings. The struggle against eviction in NYC’s Lower East Side, Current Sociology, first published May 19, 2021
June 2021
Hans Erik Næss, Norway
Sociology and the ethnography of human rights at mega-sport events, Current Sociology 68( 7): 972–989
May 2021
Kinneret Lahad, Israel, with Vanessa May, UK
Holding back and hidden family displays: Reflections on aunthood as a morally charged category, Current Sociology, first published March 07, 2021
April 2021
Marie Leth Meilvang, Denmark
From rain as risk to rain as resource: Professional and organizational changes in urban rainwater management, Current Sociology, first published February 11, 2021
March 2021
Ian Carrillo, USA
The racial fix and environmental state formation, Current Sociology, first published April 10, 2020
February 2021
Suhad Daher-Nashif, Qatar
Colonial management of death: To be or not to be dead in Palestine, Current Sociology, first published August 28, 2020
January 2021
Geoffrey Mead, Australia
Proper recognition: Personhood and symbolic capital in contemporary sociology, Current Sociology, first published June 27, 2020
November 2020
Man Xu, Canada
Constructing the refugee: Comparison between newspaper coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canada and the UK, Current Sociology, first published August 18, 2020
October 2020
Myrna Dawson, Canada
Identifying femicide locally and globally: Understanding the utility and accessibility of sex/gender-related motives and indicators, Current Sociology, first published August 28, 2020 (co-authored with Michelle Carrigan)
September 2020
Robbie Shilliam, USA
Redeeming the ‘ordinary working class’, Current Sociology 68(2): 223–240
August 2020
Kathia Serrano Velarde, Germany
Informal learning in formal organizations: The case of volunteer learning in the hospital, Current Sociology 68(4): 572–591
July 2020
Kyohee Kim and Peer Smets, The Netherlands
Home experiences and homemaking practices of single Syrian refugees in an innovative housing project in Amsterdam, Current Sociology, first published online June 12, 2020
June 2020
Lorenza Antonucci, UK and Simone Varriale, UK
Unequal Europe, unequal Brexit: How intra-European inequalities shape the unfolding and framing of Brexit, Current Sociology 68(1): 41–59